- Select the financial formula you want to study from the tabs at the top
of the calculator. The formula you will be working with appears at the top
of the card.
- Enter data into all but one of the fields.
- When you click on the remaining field, the calculator will fill
in the field with the appropriate value.
- For example, if you
enter data under "simple interest" for the future value of your savings,
the rate of interest, and the amount of the deposit, then when you click
on the "time in years" of the investment, the field will fill in with
the time it takes for your initial investment to reach the desired final value.
- You can change the values in one field and then click on another field, to see how
changes to one parameter affect another. For example, after having calculated
how long it would take for a particular savings scheme to accumulate
$10,000, you might change the "future value" to $15,000 and then click on
the "amount of deposit" field to see how much more you would need to save regularly to
reach $15,000 in the same time. Or you might click on the interest rate to see
how high interest rates would have to be to make your savings reach $15,000
instead of $12,000.
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